Julia can say no too

We’re glad to hear it’s not just
Tony Abbott
who has been known to use the “no" word from time to time.

Turns out Prime Minister
Julia Gillard
has been saying “no" to her enthusiastic jet-setting Foreign Minister
Kevin Rudd
as well.

Rudd, who has only visited 53 countries over 26 trips (some of those countries may have been visited multiple times) since becoming the minister in 2010, was apparently knocked back for a gig to the “G’day USA" tourism promotion event in 2011.

Unfortunately, it meant KRudd didn’t get to mix it on the red carpet with the likes of
Rove McManusand
John Travolta
.

It probably would have brought back painful memories for Rudd anyway – as PM he was a regular on Rove’s old chat show, so perhaps Gillard was just doing Rudd a favour.